The Road Practice Questions
About This Topic
The largest LGV and PCV module covers how a large vehicle interacts with the road itself: speed limits by vehicle and road type, motorways, crosswinds, spray, road surfaces, and driving at night and in bad weather. Many questions hinge on the extra space and time a long, heavy vehicle needs.
What the DVSA tests here
- Speed limits for lorries, buses and coaches on each class of road
- Wind, spray and weather effects on high-sided vehicles
- Allowing for the stopping distances a heavy vehicle needs
Practising this topic
There are 140 questions on the road in this practice bank, and every answer comes with an explanation so you can learn from your mistakes as you go. The LGV and PCV multiple-choice exam runs to 100 questions with a pass mark of 85, drawing on every module in the vocational syllabus. A good rule of thumb is to keep practising a topic until you clear it comfortably several times in a row.
In the run-up to test day
Professional drivers usually revise around shifts, which makes short, focused sessions the practical choice: a module like this one can be reviewed in fifteen minutes at the start or end of a working day. Treat exact figures — weights, hours, pressures and speed limits — as facts to memorise rather than rules of thumb, because the exam tests them precisely. Once the module feels secure, fold it into 100-question mock papers so your accuracy holds across the full hour and fifty-five minutes of the real test.